Alister Cameron // Blogologist

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Tag: Javascript

Salesletter techniques that suck: JavaScript date/timer hacks

I am not a fan of the long-form salesletter, although my company works with clients who love it, and for good reason: it is proven to work… it makes things sell.
And there are the standard array of tricks and techniques that people use on these salesletters… you know the kind: highlighting everywhere, endless bullet lists, [...]

Prototype.js + Scriptaculous in one file under 50Kb!

OK. Call me anal or something but I don’t like the way coders so frequently leave “fat” in their javascript. Which might be fine if everyone was on a T1 line or something, but they’re not and we need to be nice and thoughtful and stuff.
To that end, I’ve gone to the trouble of playing [...]